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O. L. DALTON.

WHIP HOLDER.

No.349,341. Patented Svep t. 21,1886.

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INVENATOR UNITED STATES PATENT OEETC CLARENCE L. DALTON, OF CINCINNATI, OHIO, ASSIGNOR TO CHARLES H. ALBRECHT, OF SAME PLACE.

WHlP-HOLDER.

GIPTGATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 349,341, dated September 21, 1886.

Application filed December 16, 1855. Serial No. 185,802. (No model.)

To aZZ whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, CLARENCE L. DALTON, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Cincinnati, Hamilton county, Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in W'hipHolders, of which the following is a specification.

The several features of my invention and the various advantages resulting from their use, conjointly or otherwise, will be fully hereinafter set forth.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a perspective View of my improved whipsockct attached to the vertical bar of a dashframe. Fig. 2 is a perspective View showing the socket as made from a single piece of wire. Fig. 3 is a perspective of the socket as made from two pieces of wire. Figs. 4 and 5 show a pair of clamps for holding the wire frame of the socket.

The wire A is bent to the shape shown in Fig. 3, forming the vertical wires a (6 a a and loops (6 a. By reference to the drawings, it will be seen that this shape is such as to produce a socket with two springs, each pressing inwardly. The first spring is at the upper part of the socket, and is formed by the wires to (6 in the front, tending to press toward the wires a and a in the rear. The second spring is located below and is formed by the wires a and w on one side pressing toward the wires a and a on the other. Thus these two compression-springs act at right angles to each other. The wire B is bent into a circular form, and its ends turned up to form the projectionsb b. The modification shown in Fig. 2, in which the whole socket is formed from a single wire, is readily understood from the drawings.

The clamp for holding the socket to the dashframe is shownin Figs. 1, 4, and 5. The anterior plate, I), of the clamp is provided with two longitudinal grooves, d d. Projecting from the sides of the plate are two lugs, d. The rear plate, E,is provided with two grooves, ee, correspondingto, the grooves d d of the plate D. When the two plates D and E are brought together, the grooves 11 d fit over the grooves e 6. Two or more pins or orifices may be used for riveting or fastening the plates together. That side of the plate E which is not shown in Fig. 4 is shaped to conform to the outline of the bar of the dash frame, as shown in Fig. l. Theblanks intervening between the grooves are cut away in the center, forming central depressions, e and d which are continuous with their respective grooves c and d.

The device is put together, as shown in Fig. 1. The ends a and a of the wire A and the ends I) I) of the wireB rest in the channels formed by the grooves c and d. It is then placed in position with reference to the bar of the dashframe, and the screws G slipped through the ends of the brace F and screwed into the lugs d. Then the screws G are tightened, the plates D and E are clamped together, firmly holding the wire frame between them, and at the same time the socket as a whole is clamped in position onthe bar of the dash-frame. In the use of these plates D and E the ends (6 and a are curved round toward each other, so as to fit into the space e d, and the ends I) I) are similarly turned toward each other to fit into the same space. Now, when the socket is clamped together, the wires cannot possibly be pulled out.

Then the whip-handle is forced into the socket, it is tightly held by the double spring already described. At the bottom of the socket the whip-handle rests on the two loops formed by the wires a and a and a and a The loop B prevents the socket being pulled apart. It may be omitted, or B may be employed.

The advantages of this socket are its reliability and its cheapness.

Among the various advantages of my invenseveral loops .tion which can be mentioned are the following, viz: The holder automatically adjusts itself to any sized whip. The holder possesses great strength and durability. It is light of weight and cheap of manufacture. Another prominent feature of advantage consists in the fact that it is always very reliable, and does not get out of order.

While the various features of my invention are preferably employed together, one or more of said features may be used without the remainder, and in so far as applicable one or more of said features may be used in connection with whip-sockets other than the one herein specifically described.

\Vhat I claim as new and of my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A wire whip-holder having four upright wires curved to form a double spring, substantially as and for the purposes specified.

2. The combination of the wire whip-socket A and the inelosing-guard, substantially as and for the purposes specified.

3. The combination of the wire whip-socket having wires a and a and claspingplates having depressions to receive said wires, substantially as and for the purposes speeified.

4. The combination of the wire whip-socket having wires (1 and a and plates E D, having 

